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Tuesday, February 23, 2016

Message:http://www.kdrv.com/news/Ashland_Police_Warn_of_Continued_Kidnap_Scam_.htmlI believe you called this "express kidnapping" in your book, wheresomebody calls the mark and claims to have a relative of the mark whothey kidnapped, and to send money. Keep in mind that this isn't NewYork or Los Angeles, but sparsely populated south Oregon-Medford isthe main city, but it only has around 80,000 people. It looks likeyou're right yet again. I believe it was Mark Twain who said, historymay not repeat itself but it rhymes.
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..That’s very interesting, thanks for the link.Indeed,
it happens a lot in Argentina. This is what we call “virtual
kidnapping”. Basically “virtual kidnapping” is any kind of scam in which
the victim is made to believe that a loved one has been kidnapped but
no one has been actually taken. It can be anything from random calls to
scams made with knowledge of the supposed kidnap victim being away,
maybe on business, or otherwise. In one case I remember from Argentina,
the “virtual kidnap” was perpetrated because the virtual kidnapper knew
the victim would be away for several hours with his mistress, cell phone
off to avoid being located. That gave the virtual kidnapper a good
window of time to work with and collect the ransom money from this
person’s family. These kind of scams are precisely why it’s so
important in a place like Argentina (and I guess now USA) to have your
cell phone with you at all times so as to quickly contact family
members. “Express kidnap” is different. It involves someone actually
being kidnaped. It’s called “express” because it’s usually a very fast
action, not involving the intel often found in more elaborate, typical
kidnaps. “Express kidnaps” often involve criminals simply driving around
looking for targets that seem wealthy. This may be people wearing
expensive clothes, location (wealthy neighbourhoods) fancy cars or
private school uniforms. At one time several private schools encouraged
students to stop wearing the school uniform because pupils were being
kidnapped because of them. The amount of ransom money asked is usually
far less than a classic kidnap. The idea is to get paid little money but
get paid fast, minimising the chance of getting the police involved.FerFALFernando “FerFAL” Aguirre is the author of “The Modern Survival Manual: Surviving the Economic Collapse”and “Bugging Out and Relocating: When Staying is not an Option”.

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